The Portrait Gallery wants your photos

damien haas said :

This sounds like one of those, pay 500 bucks and we will issue a canberra bands cd with your band on it, scams.

Change bands to poetry, short story, portrait – scam is the same.

might sound like it, but it is quite a prestigious award, something like the archibald for photography… it is not a scam. unless you’d imagine perhaps powderfinger, midnight oil, acdc and the living end all paying for their shot on a compilation cd…

http://www.portrait.gov.au/site/exhibition_subsite_NPPP2010_9.php

This sounds like one of those, pay 500 bucks and we will issue a canberra bands cd with your band on it, scams.

Change bands to poetry, short story, portrait – scam is the same.

Fiona said :

They only need 1000 entries to break even!

well, to cover the prize – there are doubtless administrative costs in running such an initiative… (and they do get a significant no. of entries – btw, my sister was a finalist in the inaugural event 😉 )

i wasn’t as taken with the pool of finalists last year and again thought the photo adjudged the winner was not nearly the best portrait. this competition also opens the can of worms of just what constitutes a ‘portrait’… the first winner, for mine, wasn’t one!

They only need 1000 entries to break even!